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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 11:26 pm

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the only way I can exist without my left leg falling asleep (I have a perpetually pinched nerve) is to be lying on the floor on my stomach. I am writing a 20 page research paper while doing this. my ribs hurt from grinding in to the hardwood :(

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the only way I can exist without my left leg falling asleep (I have a perpetually pinched nerve) is to be lying on the floor on my stomach. I am writing a 20 page research paper while doing this. my ribs hurt from grinding in to the hardwood :(

Have you done physical therapy? It helped me a LOT with that. Exercise balls are pretty good for this too. I've still got all the numbness, but at least I can drive now.

I'm trying to think of things more miserable than hot flashes and failing.

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Post subject: Re: Space to post things that do not go with any other topic

Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 11:48 pm

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lavawitch wrote:

booberthefraggle wrote:

the only way I can exist without my left leg falling asleep (I have a perpetually pinched nerve) is to be lying on the floor on my stomach. I am writing a 20 page research paper while doing this. my ribs hurt from grinding in to the hardwood :(

Have you done physical therapy? It helped me a LOT with that. Exercise balls are pretty good for this too. I've still got all the numbness, but at least I can drive now.

I'm trying to think of things more miserable than hot flashes and failing.

I have not, I sadly am health-insurance-less right now due to some loopholes and problems, but when I get back on it (hopefully september) I will absolutely be doing physical therapy. this is annoying but what gets me more is the not being able to sit for more than a few hours without excruciating pain. suckss but whatever, at least I am in a field where standing all the time is normal, haha.

j-dub wrote:

Drinking wine and writing grad school apps. This is no fun!

change wine to coffee and you get me for the past 4 hours :(

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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 2:20 am

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I finally broke down and bought myself new sneakers. With the muscle problems I've been having, coupled with the fact that my old sneakers were literally disintegrating on my feet, I think this was a well deserved purchase (even though I hate spending +$80 on one pair).

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Post subject: Re: Space to post things that do not go with any other topic

Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 4:13 am

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I wonder how my professor would feel if I just handed in complete nonsense for the first draft of this? (there are 2 more drafts due before the end of the semester) usually I am not in classes where drafts are a thing that are handed in, but there are some young folks in this one, I believe the professor is allowing for huge discrepancy in quality that will probably happen and then hopefully there will be time for improvement blah blah blah.

I am convinced this particular dude should not be in charge of an academic class, there is a lot of swing in expectations and quality of information. ALSO, this was assigned as a "single spaced 10-page paper" which, whatever I've written papers longer than 20pages double spaced a thousand times before, but single spaced? and when I asked if he wanted it in MLA or Chicago Standard, he didn't know what the difference was? and he also said wikipedia was a valid source?I just, don't understand? literal quantity over quality expectations. not the level or rigor I expect, but twice the amount of busywork.

/whining

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Honestly, two dudes on a subway is better than most of students come up with. They refuse to follow rubrics or cite sources. Ive stopped assigning these things because they lower grades too much and that a huge headache for me.

Example: 40 point mapping project. 5 points for labeling 5 major cities/towns. 5 for latitude and longitude of each, etc etc. and they just skip whatever steps are too much trouble then whine when they get an F.

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No. I teach the people who will be at universities in September. I see no reason to believe they will change that radically between now and then. Conversations with my former professors and professor friends bears this out.

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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 5:41 pm

Lactose Intolerant...Literally

Joined: Fri Nov 02, 2012 3:08 pmPosts: 718Location: Boston area

I'm sooooo tired of being single.

It's getting pathetic. At my job at the grocery store I've begun sketchily looking at the items in peoples' carts in the hopes of running into a cute veg*n woman. I just have this idea that she will come up and ask me where the soy milk is and we'll hit it off. Hasn't happened yet, lol!

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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 5:43 pm

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that completely blows my mind! I was such a neurotic and obsessive nerd, I couldn't let myself get anything less than an a- without seriously re-considering my value. (I was a nutcase, obvs, but still!)

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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 5:45 pm

Vegan Since Before There Were Vegetables

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lavawitch wrote:

Honestly, two dudes on a subway is better than most of students come up with. They refuse to follow rubrics or cite sources. Ive stopped assigning these things because they lower grades too much and that a huge headache for me.

Example: 40 point mapping project. 5 points for labeling 5 major cities/towns. 5 for latitude and longitude of each, etc etc. and they just skip whatever steps are too much trouble then whine when they get an F.

LW, that assignment sounds really fun to me.

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